A summer nap. Truly, is there anything better?
Zelda Devon chose this John Singer Sargent.
Greg Manchess picked out this stunning Winslow Homer, “
Summer Evening is classic warm evening faire, and the sweet dance of the carefree...not to mention it’s killer moonlight reflections.”
One of many great beach landscapes from Lyonel Feininger.
Science fiction is so often dark and gritty, I love that Moebius let
the future be such a clean, bright, and beautifully designed place.
Carl Wiens, “I think about
night paintings when I think of summer. It’s the time to get out and
enjoy the moonlight, to escape the heat of the day. I like Hiroshige’s
woodcut of
A Man Horseback Crossing on a Bridge.”
Carl Wiens also picked Vincent Van Gogh’s
Starry Night,
“You can sense the warmth of the day radiating up into the cool night
sky. You could build a whole library of Van Gogh’s summer paintings from
southern France. The fields, the sunflowers. Another great summer
painting is
Terasse Cafe.”
Donato chose
Joan of Arc, a subject he has recently tackled himself. This one by
Jules Bastien-Lepage — a highlight at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chris Buzelli selected this surreal landscape by Ben Blatt.
Continuing our night theme,
Allen Williams chose this one from Zdzislaw Beksinski.
Bill Carman on Wayne Thiebaud, “Almost anything he does can say summer to me. I grew up in California and his work just hits home.”
Sam Wolfe Connelly picked out what is many fantasy artists’ favorite,
The Lady of Shallot by J. W. Waterhouse. “No words...just one of my all time favorite paintings”
Greg Manchess says, “To me, Clyde Aspevig captures that endless grassy plain, baked under the heat of a South Dakota sun.”
Kekai Kotaki picked George W. Lambert’s
Across The Black Soil Plains. I’d
love to see this in person.
Bill Carman points us to what must be the
best summer reading group, from Shaun Tan.
Gary Rudell spent the first half of his career painting SFF book
covers. He has since turned his attention to gallery painting, to
stunning results. He’s done many paintings of families in and around
water....each feels like a faint memory.
I saw an exhibit of Lyonel Feininger last summer. If you get a chance
to see these originals, take it! The vibrancy of the color and geometric
abstraction makes for mesmerizing landscapes. Each one a window to
someplace you really want to be.
Jeff Jones’ starman on what looks like a starry summer night, Earth or otherwise.
Greg Manchess, “Elena Zolotnitsky infuses summer into these roses with edited shapes and subtle colors without grass or beaches or clouds.”
Summer driving on a lonely road, vertical heat radiates from a hot
two-lane blacktop, perfectly displayed here by Nathan Fowkes.
John Jude Palencar picked this provocatively titled
Distant Thunder and the one below by Andrew Wyeth. (Palencar, who loves Wyeth just as much as I do.)
Edward Hopper, the master at portraying loneliness and isolation, here showing us a hot day in the city.
Gary Kelley and one of his many great city scenes.
Scott Brundage, “Perhaps an obvious pick for summer, but seeing Leyendecker paint toes is a treat.”
Moebius, gliding on a summer breeze.
Some summer heat by Greg Manchess.
Both
Zelda Devon and
Lars Grant-West picked
Mending the Sails by Joaquín Sorolla. It’s now becoming one of my favorites as well.
I stumbled into Alexander Kanevsky while losing my way to another
exhibit. I was so glad I did. Here’s the quintessential summer activity
of drying laundry on the line.
Ivan Shishkin, picked by
Justin Gerdard.
This is a stunning and simple N. C Wyeth, chosen by
John Jude Palencar...
...and because there really is no such thing as too much Wyeth. Also chosen by
Charlie Parker.
Carl Wiens, “Grant Wood’s
Young Corn brings long driving trips through the rolling countryside to mind.”
Tristan Elwell reminds us that “it’s hot up here” with one of Georges Seurat’s most famous works,
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
More N. C. Wyeth.
John Jude Palencar picked out these two by Thoams Eakins.
....George Bellows’ take on the subject: “Forty-two kids, scrambling about a dock, skinny dipping and causing mayhem,”
Carl Wiens...also picked by Greg Manchess.
Kinda like a dragonfly chase, only bigger. By Heather Theurer.
Of course we were excited to include Michael Whelan’s
Summer Queen, the companion to his
Winter Queen painting. Both for Joan Vinge book covers.
Justin Gerard chose one of
Scott Gustafson’s many wonderful fairy tale paintings, “His work has
this wonderful sense of perpetual summer to it.”
Teresa N. Fischer selected
this lovely portrait by Joseph Todorovitch. “ I love his work, but this
portrait in particular is breathtaking to me. Feels like that moment in
the warm sunshine, when you close your eyes, feel the warmth, and
breath the fresh Summer air. Breathtaking indeed.”
Kinuko Craft’s book cover,
Grail of Summer Stars, for an upcoming Freda Warrington novel.
Scott Brundage chose this
one from Kadir Nelson, “Even with a crapload of unbelievably vibrant
blue, I still feel like I should be sweating with this piece.”
Arnie Fenner, “Phil Hale’s
Johnny Badhair is almost always bashing robots shirtless and in shorts, so how could it not be a summer ritual?”
Brad Holland with some sea action, freaky googles, and a great splash of orange.
Donato Giancola lets us stumble onto a little dragon fight in a sunny glade, like you do.
It‘s not often that you get to see spaceships in season but here’s a great summer evening by John Berkey.
Another by Alexander Kanvesky.
Tristan Elwell says, “If
you want hot and humid rather than hot and dry, here’s some Brachiosaurs
cooling off in a lake by Zdenek Burian. Scientifically inaccurate by
today’s standards, but wonderful nonetheless.”
A true classic of American illustration, Howard Pyle’s
Marooned.
David Grove’s
Lincoln Park.
Bernie Fuchs
Scott Brundage picked this Inka Essenhigh painting.
Arnie Fenner, “I
have no idea whether H. Beam Piper was writing allegories with his
Little Fuzzy stories, but do know that Michael Whelan’s cover for
Golden Dream
is expansive and buoyant-and the sun peeking between the mountains
reminds me of the annual summer photo-op at 2nd & 5th in NYC as the
sun sets between the skyscrapers.”
Scott Brundage, a
watercolorist himself, picked Josè Segrelles, “I’ve seen only a handful
of his work, but it’s amazing. And somehow he does it in watercolor.”
Scott Brundage, “Brom’s
Dark Sun
art. He created a convincingly uncomfortable, dry, sun bleached world.
His characters seemed to be the only creatures that could possibly exist
there, toughened and weathered like Floridians on steroids.”
Jon Foster picked
The New Novel by Winslow Homer. It got a strong second by
Doug Alexander Gregory. (Doing these posts is making Homer one of my all time favorites.)
Charley Parker, from the indispensible art blog,
Lines and Colors,
picked this Mucha. “Alfons Mucha created at least three different
series of posters depicting the seasons as embodied by his graceful Art
Nouveau women. They remain among his most popular works. Here are his
figures for Summer from 1896 and 1900.” These were also a favorite of
Tristan Elwell’s.
Arnie Fenner brought up the “joyful innocence (provided no one gets stepped on!) of James Gurney’s dinos & kids ocean-side romp.”
Bill Carman chose this Robert Cunningham painting, “When I first saw Cunningham’s work it screamed warm, clean summer.”
Erwin Madrid with some cool light on the laundry.
Christopher Silas Neal picked out
Bigger Splash
and others from David Hockney, “I love how they capture time and
movement while at the same time have an exhaustive sense of stillness. I
hope that makes sense and that I’m using the word ’exhaustive’
correctly. More simply put, they embody both movement and stillness
simultaneously.”
Steven H. Stroud, a contempoarry landscape artist.
Bill Carman, “Richard Diebenkorn’s earlier paintings also capture that Cal summer thing for me.”
“Summer =
hot, and John Schoenherr’s
Dune paintings are some of the hottest ever painted,”
Tristan Elwell.
I can always count on
Bruce Jensen to take us a bit further away. He picked
The Surface of Mercury by Chesley Bonestell.
Okay, it’s true that I took a break for thirty seconds to check Facebook, but I just ran into this beauty from Sergio Lopez.
Arnie Fenner, of Spectrum picked these two beach scenes. The ominous noir-pastiche from Greg Manchess for Hard Case Crime....
...and the full-on playful pin-up by Gil Elvgren.
Bill Carman said of this Wayne Thiebaud, “I could not only eat the cake, but even more so the paint.”
And I’ll leave you with a quiet sun drenched moment from Gwen John.
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